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Circle of students during die-in protest, 2019

Photo: Daniel Goodwin G/The Tech

Members of the MIT Black Students' Union, Black Graduate Student Association, and the Black Business Students Association joined in a circle to sing the "Black National Anthem" and "We Shall Overcome" during a die-in protest, Lobby 7, 4 February 2019.

The Black Students’ Union, Black Graduate Student Association, and Black Business Student Association protested and held a die-in Monday. Protesters laid on the floor in the area connecting Lobby 7 and the Infinite Corridor to represent those who have died as a result of police brutality...About 60 black undergraduate and graduate students participated in the protest and about 10 faculty and staff attended...The die-in lasted four minutes to symbolize how police left Brown’s body uncovered for four hours...Brown, an eighteen-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a white police officer in 2014.

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